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Mavi Jeans

Turkish textile brand

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1911924
Source-derived summary

Mavi is a Turkish brand of denim and jeans founded in 1991 in Istanbul, Turkey. The company manufactures jeans for both women and men, targeting a younger age group. The global operation is headquartered in Turkey, with subsidiaries in the US, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Russia and Australia.

Mavi is a Turkish word meaning "blue".

Retail locations

Mavi has flagship stores in New York City, Vancouver, Istanbul, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Moscow.

Marketing

Celebrities who wear Mavi include Kate Winslet and Chelsea Clinton. In 2012, Adriana Lima signed a contract with Mavi for a marketing campaign, and sales increased 50%.

Production

The major factory of company is located in Çerkezköy, Tekirdağ Province.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mavi Jeans” as turkish textile brand. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mavi, Jeans and Turkish.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mavi, Jeans and Turkish providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1911924. VIAF identifies the subject as 698145857132622922872. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Mavi Jeans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.